A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What’s a script/alias that you use a lot?

# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
  cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    61·
    6 hours ago

    I wrote a script called please. You input please followed by any other command (e.g. please git clone, please wget blahblah) and a robotic voice will say “affirmative,” then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. “completed successfully” or “failed with status 1” etc.)

    This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it’s finished. And it’s a gentleman.

    • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      I once experimented with something similar, except it was supported to trigger my smart speaker and drop into another part of the house to tell me.

      Honestly, I really need to replace my proprietary smart speaker system with something self-hosted; it’s just I only recently have had the time to start cinsidering.